TORONTO – The super scorer is tearing it up from the field this series. No, not that Vince guy, Allan Houston, a player the Knicks are in danger of losing after the season as a free agent.

Houston was scintillating yesterday, nailing 9-of-14 shots from the field – including 2-of-3 from three-point range – to go along with his third straight 4-for-4 game from the line.

He led all scorers with 24 points as the Knicks scrambled the Raptors 97-89 to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five first-round playoff series.

Houston is shooting 56 percent from the field in the series while Vince Carter, who looks overwhelmed by it all, is shooting 31 percent. Houston’s averaging 20.3 points a game to Carter’s 18.3.

This is the kind of performance the Knicks had to have from Houston, a turnaround from his second-half slump when he averaged 16 points on 43 percent shooting from the field and 33 percent from three-point land. In the first half of the year, Houston shot 46 percent from the field and 42 percent on threes.

There is a different look in Houston’s eyes now. The playoffs have given him a boost of energy. Houston said he’s not the only Knick with that look of determination.

“Everybody had that look in their eye on the plane yesterday coming here,” Houston said. “In our meeting, everybody had that look in their eye that we knew it wasn’t going to be easy, but we knew how important this game was. In timeouts, everybody was just picking each other up and letting us know that we had to win this game.”

Houston’s three-pointer with 5:21 remaining put the Knicks up and away, 82-74.

“We’ve had a lot of experience where we have had to be resilient,” Houston said of playing without Marcus Camby. “Sometimes you have a choice like this game today. You’re going to make a choice to do certain things to win the game or else it’s going to go the other way.”

Houston, Latrell Sprewell and Glen Rice would not allow it to go the other way.

“I think our experiences in the past have just made us stronger,” Houston said. “We have guys who have been through this before and just know what it takes. There’s a lot of little things that can go on out there that can win or lose games for you. We just found a way to do it.”